• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    2 days ago

    Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.

    And the collegiate system wasn’t based on Confucian teaching styles.

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      22 hours ago

      Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries;

      Yes but that is exactly the timeframe the person you replied to is discussing.

      It has been quite a while since nobles were generally illiterate and needed clergy to read and write for them…centuries in fact